To Dare More Boldly: The Audacious Story of Political Risk - Hardcover

Hulsman, Dr John C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691172196 ISBN 13: 9780691172194

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Ten lessons from history on the dos and don’ts of analyzing political risk

Our baffling new multipolar world grows ever more complex, desperately calling for new ways of thinking, particularly when it comes to political risk. To Dare More Boldly provides those ways, telling the story of the rise of political risk analysis, both as a discipline and a lucrative high-stakes industry that guides the strategic decisions of corporations and governments around the world. It assesses why recent predictions have gone so wrong and boldly puts forward ten analytical commandments that can stand the test of time.

Written by one of the field's leading practitioners, this incisive book derives these indelible rules of the game from a wide-ranging and entertaining survey of world history. John Hulsman looks at examples as seemingly unconnected as the ancient Greeks and Romans, the Third Crusade, the Italian Renaissance, America's founders, Napoleon, the Battle of Gettysburg, the British Empire, the Kaiser's Germany, the breakup of the Beatles, Charles Manson, and Deng Xiaoping's China. Hulsman makes sense of yesterday's world, and in doing so provides an invaluable conceptual tool kit for navigating today's.

To Dare More Boldly creatively explains why political risk analysis is vital for business and political leaders alike, and authoritatively establishes the analytical rules of thumb that practitioners need to do it effectively.

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From the Back Cover:

"Hulsman combines first-rate historical storytelling with extremely sophisticated political analysis--you can actually imagine him sitting in the room with the great strategists of the past. To Dare More Boldly is a brilliant and unusual book that rips up conventional thinking on the major events of world history."--James Frayne, author of Meet the People: Why Businesses Must Engage with Public Opinion to Manage and Enhance Their Reputations

"Written by one of political risk’s most entertaining, original, and mischievous thinkers, To Dare More Boldly is the ultimate guide to understanding where the world is now and predicting its future."--Tom Welsh, Daily Telegraph

"To Dare More Boldly is a monument to Hulsman’s vast erudition. In this captivating book, he examines what has gone wrong throughout history and uses those insights to formulate a general set of lessons for those who have to assess political risk--and for all of us to better judge the foreign-policy decisions of our leaders."--Teun van Dongen, Inholland University of Applied Sciences

"A serious, profound, and well-researched book."--Lucio Caracciolo, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome

About the Author:

John C. Hulsman is president of John C. Hulsman Enterprises, a prominent global political-risk consulting firm. His books include Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World (Pantheon), The Godfather Doctrine: A Foreign Policy Parable (Princeton), and To Begin the World Over Again: Lawrence of Arabia from Damascus to Baghdad (St. Martin's). He lives in Milan, Italy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0691172196
• ISBN 13: 9780691172194
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344